Extracted from ``Lewis County, Tennessee: Est. 1843'',
Bessie Leora Skelton, ca. 1910, Decatur, TX
When Amanda Sharp Pegram married Samuel
Skelton, they brought to that marriage numerous
step-brothers and sisters, and on Aug. 12, 1886, Ida
Katherine Pegram married her step-brother, Isaac
Thomas (Tom) Skelton in Lewis County, TN. Their
children were: Beatrice Landora (August 1894);
Bessie Leora (October 1896); Eugene Howard (1906);
and Phillip (died at age three years). Ida, Tom and
their children lived in Hohenwald, TN, later moving
to Wise County, TX and finally settling in Southern
Dallas/Northern Ellis Counties.
Bessie L. Skelton first married Charles Stevens
Jones approximately 1915. They had one daughter, Thelma Beatrice (May 20, 1916-July 30, 1981). Thelma married Jesse Slocum Elliott. They had one daughter, Adila Ann, born Oct. 15, 1939. Thelma later married Forrest Filgo Smith. They had one daughter, Patricia Lynn, born April 12, 1945.
Bessie Skelton Jones later married Edward Ray Horn on Dec. 25, 1923. They had one daughter, E. Katherine, born Dec. 2, 1924, who married Prentis Austin Samford, Feb. 5, 1944. Their children are: Dennis Wayne, born April 26, 1946, and Mark Ethan, born March 7, 1955.
Submitted by Patricia Smith Boatright, fourth great-granddaughter of Edward Sharp and grand-daughter of Leora Skelton.
by Turner Publishing Company, p. 208.